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had but bed at this time of night"
though that time 10 the only time Of day
or night ct which the transcontinental
train from the East arrives. The only
other common" room 10 the bar-room,
with two billiard tables and . counter for
the sale Of pop, ginger ale, soda water
and lemonade, for no laws in America
are 90 strict o. the prohibitory drinking
laws Of the Northwest provinces And
yet there must be liquor about for
those who know how to get It, since the
principal topic in the bsr-room of the
Sanitarium each morning while was
there was the number and character of
the cases Of drunkenness Of the night
before. Queer hotels are the Western
ones. Here in Calgary the gentlemen
are provided with trough and water by
the pail in the toilet-room of the principal
hotel, and in Winnepeg the best house
has its dining where other hotels
have their cellars, eight or ten feet under
the ground. At this Ssnitarium, in Bauff,
the proprietor has hung canaries in cages
in the hall between the bedrooms, and at
daybreak the birds sing 90 shrilfy that
sleep is banished from the hotel.
The oddities Of life at the Springs con-
tinue at the baths. The principal bath
house Is Of logs-a big slab-building-
all cut up into double rooms, one In each
instance for the bath.tub and one for the
cot whereon one rests and IL rubbed to q
high state Of polish. Very sptly q long
and timber mountaineer, graduated at Q
bound from cutting timber to tending
the bath, is the rubber" for the male
patients. Each bath-tub is filed with
water registering 110o to 1902 Fahren-
heit, and when patient feels his way at
first, with one toe or finger, 1t seems in
tries, gradually work his whole body
into the steaming pool. In another log
hut are Q cigar-case, candy-counter and
barber's chair-the single store of Sui
phur Mountain. Obi It will not be the
same place at all when the grand hotel is
opened. and there are marble floors
and French walters, and regular
"course" dinners take the places Of these
Rocky Mountain eccentricities.
"Are you going to the ball tonight and
will you take met" were the first words
addressed to me outside of the course Of
the business Of arranging for board at
the Sanitarium. The questioner was a
buxom Englishwoman, the wife Of q
resident, who stood by and waited for
my answer with as much interest, appa-
rently, as she who asked it possessed.
Strange as the question sounded, 1t was a
natural one. There was to be ball
twenty-five miles away on the railroad.
There were many women and few men
in Bauff, and here came an extra and un-
expected man into the presence of one
Of these women who suspected that il
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she did not secure him for herself some
other woman, less timid, would prove
more fortunate. am sorry did not 60
to the ball. Two or three wagon-l0ads
of dancers went from the park, attended
by the soldiers, in yellow-striped breeches
and yellow-sided capsset jauntily on
one ear. "Were many people tipsy"
some one asked one Of these prairie po-
licemen next day. "Yes," he replied,
"but not too tipsy."
But II things are crude there, the park
and all its natural attributes are none
the less charming. Cascade Mountain
lifts its granite snow-capped mass 5000
feet above you, and on its steep side the
melting snow reaches your level In
bounds of which one is leap Of 1000
feet downward through the air. Tunnel
Hill, 1000 feet high, is easily ascendable
and full of profit In grand scenery to
those who conquer 1t. Sulphur Mountain,
where the springs are, is skirted by
substantial government road, from every
turn Of which views exquisite or i'm
pressive are commanded. Between these
mountains 10 the narrow valley OF the
green and racing Bow river which, at
one beauty-spot, is Joined by the tiny
ripping spray, and at another Is widened
into q glorious lake, whose surface re-
peats the altitudinous scenery Of the
sky and mountain peaks. 1t is notable
experience to find oneself there after
only Q four-days' journey from New
York, within forty miles OF the highest
part Of the Rockies, ,at an elevation OF 900
feet above water, close to the border
between Alberta and British Columbia,
and in an atmosphere not only always
cool but where daylight lasts until ten
o'clock at night-in fact. where every
night the sunset fingers family in the
west until within an hour or two of the
time for daybreak. And such day
breaki As the golden fame Of morning
creeps downward from the mountain
tops that are the first to catch Its light,
the snow fields of the peaks glow with
the colors of mother-of- pearl touched
here and there with the lustre of tinsel
and the warmth Of glowing Goals. Tiny
dew-clouds tear themselves from the
tree-tops, and floating Of dry up and
disappear, and finally the sums unob-
structed rays fill the valleys with the
full glory OF day.
Here IL hearty invitation for the sports
man quite - great - for the invalid:
From the water one may take pike and
pickerel, and from the air geese, duck,
hunts for them with occasional reward In
the East, but In plentitude for all who
seek them. In the mountains the hunter
finds mountain sheep and antelope,
bears, deer and wolves. For the gentler
idler there are sail and row-boats, and,
for the lover Of awesome nature, queer
caves, In one Of which. after . stecp de-
scent BY ladder, y deep pond Of hot
sulphur water. whore one may bathe In
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durbar and sun of our understand
ing, art thou sure of this?" "The
lord of the earth is omniscient and
knows everything" replied he. "Well,
to be sure, we do see things, and
know one or two things, but we are
old now. Moreover, yon tree obstructs
our view. However, thou art young; 60
thou, therefore, climb the tree, watch the
cursed Muscovite's movements, and
when he is very close upon US come and
inform US. The tree is high, SO that thou
shalt be enabled to see long way off,"
Forthwith the man was led to the tree
and made to climb to the topmost
branches. To keep up his courage if he
grew weary of his post, guard with
bayonets fixed was told of to remain be-
low. 1t is said the young man felt con-
sidersbly elevated by his masters humor,
and felt very exhilarated at first; but
three days contemplation Of the beau
ties of nature, even from such COM
manding position, is apt to tire one, and
80 he fell. They say he got hurt and
died. No one dares to raise alarms in
Cabul now.
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A NOVEL HAIR ORNAMENT.
How an American Lady Surprised . Pari
Theatre Audience.

How an American Lady Surprised = Paris
Theatre Audience.
Most readers are familiar with Poe's
story of the "Golden Bug" "Dey amt
NO tin in him." says the negro Jupiter to
Legrand; "de bug is q goolde bug, solid
every bit of him, inside and ALL" An
incident which occurred at the opera the
other night recalls (says the Paris CORE
spondent of the London Daily Telegraph
the story of the American writer. A lady
of the same nationality as the fantastic
novelist had no sooner taken her seat in
one of the boxes than every lorgnette
was directed toward an apparent jewel
which cleaned ON q spray of flowers in
her corsage. Curiosity heightened
when it was seen that the supposed jewel
had antenne, and actually crawled
about. Then it gradually dawned on
the knowing ones that the moving gem
was in reality living scarabes, which
CLEANS like the purest gold.
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lOppiriQhted, ig91.l

The Robert E. Lee, racing the Natchez
for $4,000. made the 200 miles from st.
Louis to New Orleans in . little more
than three days, beating her competitor
by six hours.
Since that time Mississippi river
steamboating has changed. Boats Of
the same pattern, with some pretense at
passenger business, still ply the river, and
suggest the days Of crowded passenger
lists, gambling, explosions and snags ;
but civilization has played altogether too
sad havoc with this distinctively
American institution. The impatient
railroad spirit of the age and the rather
indefinite schedule of the steamboats,
all the way from five to fifteen days for
the trip-reduce the passenger traffic
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.uA~ the wielder of that hickory
stick. The negroes are very
expert at handling freight, and their antics
atthe different landings dispel all tedium.
They will roll barrel down the levee
in zigzag fashion by giving it touch
at one end when each new tack is
made. Bales of cotton, easiest of all
freight to handle, are their delight
There is always more or less of a shore
congregation at each landing, and often
toward evening at river towns and plan
tations the planters daughters, in cool
appearing white, honor the days event
with their presence.
Forty feet from water is the distance
these deck hands will 60 for or deliver
freight. Occasionally plantation over.
seer will appear over the levee, and
start q wrangle about the distance the
freight to be delivered to him shall be
carried. Then the mate comes in with
his vocabulary, which have already men,
toned. The captain is mild-mannered
and meek, and ventures an undertoned
suggestion occasionally to the worthy on
the lower deck with red face and shirt
sleeves, who at once vociferates it, with
celebrating expletives. At one of the land
ings contemplative, disgusted COW was
so severely kicked by an ungallant
neighboring steer that it seemed to be
unable to stand up. When its turn came
to be landed the darkies clustered around
It, and several attached themselves to it's
tail, and each leg and horn, moving spas
medically with the animals struggles, as
though themselves a part of it. When,
after much excitement, it was finally laid
gently down on the levee and deliberately
betook itself to its feet and walked off
after areproachful look around, the shout
of disgust and indignation was loud and
entirely African in its characteristics
In summer the water is so low that the
levee top appears on the level of the
house-roofs near to it. More distant
residences of planters, or overseers, can
be seen flanked by the Quarters"
Ruins of old mansions, whose pillars
still stand in almost Pantheon-like
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levees for hail between the regular land
ing places. A man waving a handkerchief
on the levee is deserted. A whistle from
the steamer tells him his hail has been
seen, and the boat steams shoreward to
take aboard, it may be, single barrel or
bale, ON which the revenue is but twenty
five or fifty cents. If running down
stream the PROV must be turned to face
the current, and the boat run into the
levee In this direction, making 1t un-
necessary to tie up while the engines
keep going. Something terrible under
other circumstances is suggested to
an Eastern man, with ideas Of deep
draught vessels, as the boat non
chalantly puts itself aground at every
stop. When the shore is neared, the
stage next to 1t begins its descent,
and after feeling carefully around for
snug resting place 1t is dropped down
and the "deck-bands" swarm ashore.
Where there are many thousand cubic
feet of lumber, for example, to load, the
waits are for hours at stopping, and
would be tedious If 1t were not for these
"deck- k-hands"-freight handlers, / would
call them. It Il worth an admission fee
to see them. They are of about the
lowest grade In the Southern negro's
social scale, and rarely make two con-
secutive trips ON the same boat. / was
surprised to learn, considering the num-
ber Of blacks in the South and the wages
paid thousands of whites In the North,
that these darkies are fed and paid n the
rate of from forty to seventy dollars per
month, according to what they take It
into their heads to ask at the time Of ship-
ment. II 10 diflcult 70 get full
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LUNCHEON.
Steamed CLANS.
String bean Salad.
Cold Meat. garnished with Parsley,
Bread. Butter. Crackers.

COAO Meat, garn1SneO Win farbloys
Bread. Butter. Crackers.
Fried Bananas.
Cocoatina and Macaroons.
STEAMED CLAMs.-Put the clans, without
rem owing the shells, in your steamer. laying
them flat, that the juice may not escape; set
the steamer over pot of boiling water,
shut up tightly and keep this at hard boil,
but not touching the CLAIMS, half an hour.
Peep in then to see if the shells have opened.
If not, close down the top for ten minutes
more; take out the clans, pry off the upper
shells and arrange the lower (holding the
clams) on fiat dish. Lay on each a sauce
made by whipping tablespoonful or more
of butter to a cream with the juice of a
lemon, little chopped parsley, salt and
touch Of cayenne. Eat hot, with warmed
crackers
STRrNa-BEAN SALAD-Take a cup of cold
boiled beans, and if they have not been cut
into inch lengths before they were cooked
do it now; heap on fiat dish encircle with
a row of cold boiled beet slices on each one
of these lay slice of hard-boiled egg gar
nish with crisp lettuce leaves as frill and
send around mayonnaise dressing with 1t.
This will make pretty and palatable dish. 4
FRIED BANANAs.-Pare dozen bananas
and cut each lengthwise into three slices;
have ready a batter made by beating two
eggs light with half cupful Of milk and
four tablespoonfuls of prepared -four, slightly
salted; dip the banana slices into this and
fry in boiling lard TO golden brown. Drain
off the grease and serve on hot dish lined
with white paper.
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CONTRARY CUPID.
azAs. n. sxYDsa.

W@Ays As DN xVB8s >
You can't depend on evidence that emanatss
from Cupid.
For lovers are in every sense exceptionally
stupid.
A maiden may the knowledge gain that sets
her heart a-tremble,
And yet her face IL all disdain, or 30 she
would dissemble.
She then assumes reticence that shrinks at
all advances
As If she feared the eloquence that speaks in
subtle glances.
As If she looked upon embrace a. liberty
alarming,
And didn't think yielding grace addition
ally charming.
o, when the dear seems most afraid Of these
advances tender,
Then il the time the cunning maid Il wait
ing to surrender.
For every obstacle, she knows, gives ardor
to pursuing;
A little coquetry bestows an impetus TO WOO
ing.
She doesn't care to show her heart is all
a-thrill with pleasure,
And 30 she puts her subtlest art in hesitating
leisure. .
Although the tremor of her lips all that you
seek confesses,
Whereat in dewy nectrous sips await the
sweet caresses;
Though at the heaving of her breast the sweet
conviction rushes,
And while her dropping lids attest-sweet
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CALGARY, ALBERTA when you are
crossing the prairie . thousand things
besides your recollections of what
you were taught in school remind you
that the great grassy level must at
one time have been the bed and bottom Of
vast inland sea Of which only our great
lakes now remain. But from this bust
ling town, the metropolis Of the North
west provinces of Canada, you are more
than ever strongly reminded Of the fact.
You not only see the black prairie soil, the
like of which you observe in marshes and
flats beside low rivers, but you see the
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sightseers willing to assume the doubt
and tedium for the novelty and ex-
periences of the trip.
Age, snags, explosions and fires have
caused the floating palaces of the racing
days to be replaced with successors less
worthy to bear the honored names. But
the present boats make an effort at the
cabin gliding of the former and are iden-
tical in the matter of bar and mate. The
cabin is sight as you look down It; 1t
is unobstructed by engines, which are on
the sides below deck, and extends from
stem to stern.
"stages," projected like huge tusks
from both sides Of the bow ct an upward
angle, first strike the Eastern eye. We
would call them gangplanks in the East
if we had anything corresponding In
size. They are forty or fifty feet in
length, hung ON block and tackle,
and can be hoisted, lowered and
moved from side to side to convenient
spot on the levee almost as readily as
the elephant sways his trunk. As you
walk down the stage to the steamer
you are in danger of being borne back.
ward and upward by the strong tide OF
black humanity, which rushes up to
grapple freight under enthusiasm inspired
by the mates vocabulary and hickory
stick, still carried as resolute exhfbf-
ton of conservatism in the very face OF
blighting progress. When the negroes
crowd the freight aboard, the engines are
reversed, the PROV slowly withdraws its
nose from the mud, and the stage is
hoisted-possibly to slide down its in
creasing incline the last bale OF cotton
and darky getting aboard.
The captain, who, in his neat black
suit, looks like parson beside his
red-faced, exuberant mate, holds his
hat above his eyes, scanning the
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NO MORE ALARMS.

How the Ameer Punished an Entsrpris-
ing Young Man.
The Homeward AaI says: Some
strange stories have been told Of the way
in which Abdur Rahman lords 1t over his
people. There is humor In his way of
playing the part of lord absolute which
can best be appreciated at distance, as
Q story which has just reached US will
show. Not long ago, we are told, the
Ameer was sitting in durbar discussing
public affairs. The "Home" Department
had gone through their work. Orders
had been issued to release certain
persons from the sorrows of existence,
when the durbar suddenly dashed
into greater things, and began to talk
about the English and the Russians. A
man who had lately been introduced at
court, and was not well acquainted with
his sovereign's ways, remarked, Lord of
the earth, let people say what they like,
but this humble one has been scanning
the political horizon with far-reaching
eyes, and the Russians are coming" The
lord of the earth smiled sweet smile
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THE FAMILY KITCHEN.
Seasonable Bills Of Fare and Receipts fuG
the Dishes Composing Them.

BAKED Fish CAKE-Two pounds OF coIA
boiled fresh cod or halibut, q cup of mashed
potatoes, half cup of bread crumbs, cupfui
of drawn butter, in which has been stirred
tcaspoonful Of anchovy paste, teaspoonful
OF finely cut parsley, and half as much
minced onion. raw egg, butter, salt and
pepper. Mix the fish picked evenly with
herbs, potato and drawn butter; season;
put into buttered bake dish and set in the
oven covered fifteen minutes; sift the
crumbs on top; stick bits of butter in them
and brown quickly. Wash over with Q
beaten egg, shut the oven for minute, and
serve the cake in the bake dish.
SCRAMBLED Eees.-Put a tablespoonful Of
butter, gill of milk, a saltspoonful of salt,
half as much pepper and tablespoonful of
minced parsley in frying-pan. When the
mixture boils break and stir into it eight or
ten eggs. Beat and stir until they are we'll
mixed and cease to run over the pan. Line
dish with crustless toast dipped in hot
milk, salted, peppered and buttered, and
pour the eggs on this bed.
Corn CAKEs.-Three even cupfuls of white
Indian meal, two cups of sour or butter
milk, one heaping tablespoonful of lard, one
tablespoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls
of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, three eggs
we'll beaten, cup of boiling water. Sift
meal, -four, salt and soda together three
times into bowl; mix sugar and lard in
the boiling water, add the milk; make
hole in the meal and flour and pour this in,
stirring down quickly. Now add the beaten
eggs and whip upward-hard-until you
have a smooth, light batter. Bake in
creased patepans at once. Eat hot.
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bank at the expense of the other At
one place ruin on the very verge was
pointed out as an outhouse of an old
Spanish mansion, formerly standing on
the spot over which we were steaming.
"Times are not as they were," is the
continued lament of our pilot. He now
receives 800 per month as against the
$500 per month of other days.
E. G. SAvIDGE.
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A Magical Impromptu.

During q conjurins performance in the
little town of X -, Kjoping, q wag in the
audience, threw the head of goose on the
platform. The conjurer took the affair quite
coolly. merely observing. = he stepped ON
the edge of the platform; "lfany Of the COM
pany present has lost his head, would No
quest him not to feel alarmed on chat 90
performances and fix II on again all right
6ssnska Fami.j j-Joss~slsS
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Fsther-I gave you half dollar TO sst
your shoes mended.
SOn-Yes, SIR.
''You paid twenty-6ve cents to have them
mended, didn't your
"Yes, Air."
II dunno"
"You don't know, chr Whack-you---
whack-xouna-whac Napoleon whack
-0Ehnapca whnck = whaOk - whack -
whack-Whack-Wha = whack-whaok =
whack. &C., etNs-1 1Ssas Nfstavs.
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CHANGES OF TIME.
eTEAMBOATING As IT Is ON THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

Nothing Compared with what IL was
Before the Dsys Of Fast Travel ON the
Railroad The Captain, Mate and Grow
River and Sights Along the l. vees.
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A NATIONAL PARK.
SOME SIGHTS SEEN IN THE CANA
DIAN PLEASURE GROUND.

steaming water. rmprssnatsd with Sui
phur, Iron and Medicinal Salts, Gushes
mp Everywhere-Ths Bow River Pass Of
the Rockies the 0rest Natural Gate.
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almost en-
tirely to To-
cal passen-
gerbusiness
b e t w e g n
near river
points, and
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some OF the old COur-
tiers who knew that
smile also smiled
and, turning upon him
with "the far-reach-
ing eyes," said:
bright jewel of our
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beauty, suggest all manner
of Southern romance as we
glide by. In the moonlight,
with the paddle-wheels beat
ing the water, and a planta-
tion song from the lower
deck, it is almost possible to
rear those walls again in i'm
agination, re-people them and
hear the soft music and tramp
of feet as the dark-eyed, vo-
luptuous Southern beauties
glide to its rhyme. The river
oonstanflu huilda I'M one
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-26

Col. Howard be granted franchise
for an electric railroad along Griffin
avenue.
From J. w. Wolfskill ct al, asking
for franchise for the City Railroad
Company to construct railway from
Fifth and Fort TO San Pedro to the
Southern Pacific depot on the Wolfskill
tract.
From the Central Railroad Com
pany, asking for franchise for rail
way from Hoff street along Daily street
to Grandin street.
From Merrill and Walby, asking
permission to move several houses.
From j. G. WINS, asking that a
building be removed from Cherry
street.
From the San Francisco Bridge Com
pany, asking permission to erect a
building near Buena Vista street
bridge.
The Board then adjourned.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-26
Nadeau Vineyard Land Co.,
Lively and Healthy Subscrip-
tiOmS.

As was generally predicted at the
Inauguration of this enterprise, sub
scriptions to the capital stock of the
company are already both active and
liberal, and if continued at the present
rate will soon absorb the $400, ,000-
the amount agreed ON to be placed
upon the market. The treasurer yes
terday reported block of $l30,O00
taken by M. L. Wicks, $4,000 by r..
p. and j. o. Lotspeich and $20,000 by
w. S. Hughes. Also, smaller sub
scriptions aggregating over $4,000.
As certificates are now ready for issue
from the offices of Francisco, Stuart d
Okey, 120 West First street, and A.
w. Barrett d Co., 6 Court street, no
further delay will occur in pushing
business.